The Download: The Pentagon's AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits
The DownloadThe Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limitsPlus: ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter focus on attack tactics. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next,” will focus on scoring algorithms that use AI and machine learning, as well as a technique called “standoff sensing,” which can take physiological readings from a person without attaching a device to them.
- ▪The DownloadThe Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limitsPlus: ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter focus on attack tactics.
- ▪The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request.
- ▪The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next,” will focus on scoring algorithms that use AI and machine learning, as well as a technique called “standoff sensing,” which can take physiological readings from a person without attaching
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The DownloadThe Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limitsPlus: ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter focus on attack tactics. By Thomas Macaulayarchive pageSeptember 25, 2026 This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request.
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